TT 1 1 i 11 Joars Offici 11 1 09 MILFOUL). PIKE COUNTY. PA. FRIDAY. MARCH 4. 1!)10. VOL. XV. NO 18 County BRIEF MENTION j Daring the absence of Dr. Ken worthey iu the South hi" practice will tie inrhnriiecl Dr B G Birrk- HIGH SCHOOL Rpir CI A ftLlm. wlf.i and rtminh ..... . , . r 11 n,.i, Uo account oi me mness 01 ror. " r will in; III I ElHrKC VI Ui I I mm j (er went to Boston List week where i , ,,,., T,,,,, nr. E Cmldeback i 'Jr"'k the prlnoipal of the Milford Mrs. Wblto will receive treatment 1 0 .or(. j,,rTj, fnr knp u'lils,!. am u fT . f (wl nrlh 1 erysipelas. A. D. Brown has been coufined pirt of the week by illness and went to Port Jervis hospital f(,r treatment. H H. Sanderson of Walpole Maw, a former resident of tl e county anil owner cf considerable real estate, wato In town this week. Annelnn Brothars went to the Ut loy plare in Delaw rre this week where ihey have a months work, papering, painting and decorating. The Mesdames Angelnn have goue to New York for a visit. - James Stratford, nged 19 year", bad his skull frautnreti one day lata week by falling against a shaft In the Htcnn planing mill at Parker Glen, and lies at the P .rt Jervis Hospital where be was taken for treatment, ' The Supreme Court says a contract toperfnm work on Sunday, which work in forbidden by the law of the stwtle, is Hlegul, and there can be no n eovery thereon. The plea of nieining ni harm is one often advanced ns uu excuse for wrong-doing. A ninii of average in telligenca who intends no wrong will keep within due limits and nut take chances of wrong resulting Many are too of en satisfied with this vague and unmeaning excuse to their con science, hut it has little weight either In reason or law. 8 j imieli stir and aggresshe action have been roused over the infamous "white slave'' traffic that to the gen eral public the penalties irflieted on those convicted of the crime seem la Ot'rously inadequate. To break up such a threating danger to the whole body public, with such systematic arrangements and such far-reaching Influence, by a few nionins in j til will be found difficult, if not impoe Bible. It ia on offense calling for years in the penitentiary punish nent of a deterrent effect. Hogs have reached the highest price on rec-rd. Strange! There certainly is no scarcity of hogs.. rne eartn is to pass tnrnugn in tail of Halley'a comet next May, but ' thiB3 who ara accustomed to the trail of an automobile will net mind it. ... By filling your stomach with pea nuts and popcorn you will be able to pass a meat market without blinking It is possible to effect a material reduction in the cost of living if you ran nuliivate or reawaken an honest anil ulitrnri liLlnff fur nld-fsHhinliPil bouiiuy. Barbunk, the plint wizird, has de veloped a tpiuelesa cactus is a substi tute for meat. It. is going greatly to simplify matters if one can simply go out in one's garden or back yard and pull one's roast or joint fresh from Is glowing. Immediately following tbe an nouncement that Roosevelt wonld return home in Jane, Congress be gnu preparing to get ready to ad tourn in May. Sometimes even C n gre.-s kDows when to quit. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says some present troubles are due to the cost of high living as well as the high mat of living. Aud the thot is well worth pondering. Ministers ought to be aviators. You can't keep good men down. The gloomier tbe winter, the brighter the spring. Only one ex-president is living, bur three former uiistre.ses of the White House are living Mrs. Kooseielt, Mrs. Cleveland and Mis Oarfie'd. The postal savings bank bill has Caused a lot of extraxegence in the ns of language. The big banker re mad clear through to think the people should have such a blessing as Postal Saviogs B'luka It becomes appparent that in the Stale of New York graft ia not 1 modern discovery. If the Btllinger Pinchot invesliga tioii should last 19 years, at ueoin milleemnn predicts, would Alaska last that long or would It be gobbled Dp by the Gugenheima in advance of the finding of the coun? Sinco the n.eat boycott was inaug orated, meat has advanced 1 cent per pound. Perhaps, after all, 11 would have been safer sneer to have bucked the vegetable trust. In reply to a question r ceutly asked an immigrant as to who was the Czar, he replied "Canuoo.'' Evi dent'y the man ia as famous abnatd . as he ia In this country The hitter will be at theoffico of Dr. Kenworthey Tues days, Thursday s, Saturlny and Sund tys fiom 1 to 6.30 p. ni. 65 There are people unkind enough to siy that Senator Jiff Davis's logic does not match the power of his voice The supply of George Washington auecd it' is r ulhT Hu nger owing to ihe fat that he lived in a time of ery limited magazine enterprises. Is is noiiH too soon for politician with fcl iss house to get their wire nettit g In oaler for the campaigns. The Inclination to make it bot for the cold storage outfit is spreading throughout the entire land Mrs. Edgar Van Etten wna some what injured in an antomobile acci dent in New York Turday. Hel machine ikiildcd and came iii con tact with n street car ai.d her fact was cu by broken glass. The Ich all pased out of the rivei this wiek, wit hoiit any "damage be ing d :tie. ASSESSMENT MATTERS school, no session was held In tbe High School room Friday. Some of the students erjoyed fine coasting during the vacation. A few a'udents of tbe High School were pleasantly entertainea oy airs. George Bull at the Crissman House on Friday evening. Miss Kathcrine Gumble a senior, and Thomas Wolfe a junior, have been absentees the former part of the week on accojnt of illness. El'a Hanna, a member of the Junior class, spent the past week with rela lives near Dingman'a. SIMPLIFIED 8PELLING NOTES er ,8 very much Improved- The pu plls hope that it will not lie long l e fore he is among them again as he Is much missed by his classmate.. Tbe pupils of the Grammer Depait inent celebrated Longfellow's birth day on Friday alternoon by giving a program compos ed of his most pop u'ar poems and quotations. The following are on the sick list in the Grammar Dept. Katharine Barckley John Polllon Lila De Witt. Ship Sabsidies" Thare is a continuous discussion In Congress with reference to ship sub sidies. The American carrying tracts sixty years ago covered all seas, and the Stars and Stripes A question in the public mind at'C0Qid be seen In every port In the Ciiz"ns r-f Miiram''rus held a meet ing this week to discuss the mattci o. assesMiipnts in tluit bor Uith It is not tile j urpnie to criticise theii effort, to have the nssisMiient adju.- ted and eqnal z d Such attempts might, result in 11 general awakeniii)i in the county to tbe fact that tin assessments ns ninrte are, under thf law a farce Eich assessor before entering on bis duties solemn1)" swears thit ho "will ju-tly and hen estly, to the best of his juilgment assess tin 1 value evory anparate lot, piece or irset of Isnd, with the ito provements thereon, at the -rate or price which he slinll alter due exam ination and o nsideraticn, belie vt tbe siuno wi uld sell for if sold singly and separately at a bona fide sale, afier full pablio no' ice." Is there a single assessor in the county who o.imee within wireless distance of obeying his ooth. We learu from the report of the meetirg that the Mutamorng HS-essor was paid $116 for bis services, but his work was In vain if the county commissioners alter figures as they please. Let tbe assessor under his oath justify his work. A number of Milfurd assess ments were cited, evidently to prove that thia hmoueh is greitly under assessed. The figures are misleading no matter who furnished them, t'he valuation of t lie houses alone is giv en, and from them the compiler would have it inferred that the house alone constituted the while value, Tbe valuitions of the lots is not giv en. Suppose a house here is assesel at 11200 and tbe property Is worth 7 to 8 thousand, should not (he val uation of the lots and improvements say $ii00 ha added, making the real asseaMiient $1800, if a fair statement of fact fs iutended. But unless com. pariaon is made with houses ol siml lar cost iu Mutamoras, and values lc imoared. of what VHlua to the nub lin as a means of enlightenment is the array of Milford figures. The casual reader is luduced to jump at a conclusion- which if he had tbe facts fairly presented might be very different. If Matamoras wishes to create a public symjialhy in ber fa v. or let h r make a fair presentment of comparisons of values of properties with Milf Til or any other district. Let her take her separate lots with thn improvement thereon, and show llieir total valuation as pieces of prop erty aud ihcii do the mine with Mil lord, in each insMt. ch stating the a-sumt-d actual cash velue. Every man who Is fair lliil.d-d aud willing to piy hi just proiior tion of taxes will t ot tear comp'iri ons. If it can b'i shown that one dis'ra-t is i.s-erA at u lower rate 1 lain anolh. r it should be raised and vice versa. L'-t. there be no picay une policy ao. ut it. If Mutamorna propeity is not fa'rl' asaer-ad let ht r cir.z-TS try to g-l at the root of the matter She lias a eomiiiii-sioner who can, if I e will, make a Ki-nuine attempt to reform the whole matter I the asstsr-uients, and, if it cannot i b - done lie cull place the resp intili!- 1 I y on those who r-du.-e. present is Simplified Spelling, in re gard to its general use in the future. An argtment, that Simplified Spell ing should be used, is bfsed on the facts that tbe laws of the world have idvauced, science has been more per fected and mauy other subjects, why should not our English method of spelling be changed so that it will be advantageous instead of detrimental o the publio as it is at the present Why? because it is confusing, for ex ample, lamb and clam, the b is silent in l imb wny should it not be omitted.? It is believed that all words such as clam had b affixed tc them. At first if sitne words have the b omitted A hy should not all have it dropped? The old furtr, of spelling ia confus ing to bosiness men and women, on account of the silent letters which re unnecessary as the word "compos lie," the e not being sounded. In short Simplified Spelling most take the place of the old method. The teachers of Dinginan and Westfall townships and of the Boros f Mararaorag and Milford, assembled at Local Institute, held In the High School on Saturday Feb. 26. The morning session, beginning at 10 o'clock, was occupied with the follow ing: Devotional Exercises by Mr. Wil drick. Chorus by tbe pupils of the Gram mer and High Schools. "A few words concerning the Teaching of English." by Mr. Wlldriok. "Mere Words" by Miss Holalen, ' Mis. Bracefield read a very interest. world. The flag at present la con fined exclusively to oar interior and coast trade. Two years ago when our battle ships circumnavigated tbe globe, they were supplied with pro visions and coal by toreign vessel. Ex Secretary of the Treneury Ls ie Shaw has recently made the start ling announcement that Japan is de termined to rule tbe Pacific or tinge its waves with blood, and be has add ed to th'B statement details as to how Japan can do it. Ha gays that we hired twenty-seven foreign ships to carrv supplies fur our around the world battle-ships, and that one hos tile shot from any country that owns a cannon would nnder international law have sent every one of these twenty-8'ven stvps home, for no country can offord to have its Bag in Volved in our quarrels He further stated that in 1909 the War Depart ment hired over forty foreign ships to do its work, and that u'e are send ing food to the soldiers In the Philip pine Islands in Japanese ships. He stall d further that Japan can put two hundred thousand soldiers in Hawa i in thirty days without firing a shot, and that It would take ns two years to put one hundred thousand there Tho Ex Secretary of the Treasury has a happy faculty of graphic state ment and illustration, and his com bination of arithmetic and rhetoric produce a vivid, impressive and true picture. For better or worse, v e are a first-class power and a pirt of the intemat'onal system. This has been brought about through our Ha waii and oar Philippines. The se cure insularity once afforded us by (he two great oceans it no longer NOTES FROM SANDYSTON ing ami vamaoie paper on meoounv,,,,, w raU9t abe , defl)nd try school teaober as a necessity, aud ' OQ. frontiers. Hawaii in mid Pacific also eulogized the grade teacher as well as tbe country school teacher in fitting the pupils morally as well as physically to battle with the world. Chorus by the pupils of tbe Gram mar and High Schools. Mr. R B. Dilworth gave a talk en Arithmetic. Address by Mr. E. S Wolfe presl dent or Milford Sjhcol Board. Be said in part ' Inipre ions and influ e.icea are more lasting on the minds of pupils where made by teachers. Teachers should get into the heart and the Philippines in Asia'ic waters We cannot do this without soldieis and ships, not only war ships, but colliers and commissary ships. How are we to get sailors and ships when, o ving to our tariff, other nations can build ships and employ sailors for half the price that we must pay, or in the rase of Japan, for less than one fifth the price we must pay. As Mr. Shaw says, "These are not state se crets. Everybody knows them ex cept oar voters. We are building battle-ships, and this is well, but Our law makers have a bill before them appointing a bead warden at fl.bOOper year. Two assistants lit $1,200 a year and ten others at f 000 a ynr. Our game and fish laws are getting pretty expensive, and the more law we have, the less game and fish. The proposed law is heart ily condemned by all, and the best law tbey cau make is to prevent the sale of all game. The patrons of the Montu(;ua Creamery were basy the past week in filling the ice house attached to the creamery. The ice was from the Lanta mill pond. The ciiler press of Adin Vansickle at Branchville was moved to bis residence at Layton last week- A gasoline engine will furnish (he power. John-J. Vansickle rented the "Strobe Stoll" farm at Bevans from the Flatbrook Fish ClaK The members of the Club reserve tbe dwelling on the premises. The Grangers at Layton give an other dance on Friday evening and like those previously given was well attended. So many dances in this valley is getting tiresome for Hit yonng folks The uiaaicale held at Dr Jones on Washingtcn's birttnliy was attended by the young folks, from one end of tie valley to the other. His rooms were filled daring the evening, and the musical program wai finely ren dered. Frank M. Shay of Layton is con fined to his borne from an attack of quinsy, but at this wririug is slightly better. Miss Emma Van Houten and Win. T.ansna of Walpack Centre were married at Port Jervis on Wednesday last, Hev. II J. Johnson officiating. This explains ber resignation of the school at Walpaok Centrea few days ago. Their host of friends wish them all happiness. Mrs. George Owen and family are spending a fow days visiting rela tives in Newark. Comrade Albert Wilkinson, for merly a member of Co E , 1st N. J., Cav , passed away last week at his home in Elizabeth, N. .T. Comrade Wilkinson and writer were lust friends, as we were in the same squadron, during our 3 year term, from 1S62 to 65. The Montague party whose name is on the "jag" list of the Branch ville Protectors visited that borough a few days ago with his load decor ated with jugs, bottles and a flag. He may play that trick once too of tea. THEN AS NOW. When my silken leeks have lost their gloss, And grown scraggy, thin, and grey. When my brilliant eyes are faded, dimmed, And their Inst re passed away, Wben my carmine cheeks are pole and wan, And wrinkles crease my brow, ' That is so free from time's traces WUI your love be then as now? When my lithesome form is stooped, and slow My footstepaaud my voice Is shrill and tremulous and weak, And you will no more rejoice . .. . In what you call my angel notes And my deaf ears bear not. How Much will of your love will remain? Will it be then as now? Yes; trusting God though all else change Tbe same true pulse will throb As lovingly as on this day; Grim lime oan never rob Us of the true born love that lives In as, I fell somehow Age, nor condition ne'er will change Hearts that love as now. ' Cecilia A. Cclleh. The English Sparrow. If the English sparrow were not such a hardy little rascal, so well able to take care of himself and thrive and multiply, how our pity wonld go out toward him! Especially might we now allow our generous feelings to flow, when the department of agri culture ha. just issued a farmer's bulletin in which it baa nothing real ly good to say about this dweller ev erywhere and offers various means fur getting rid of him. But the Eng I sh sparrow needs no pity. He will live by grace or without It, and we may expect that, notwithstanding the bulletins, we shall continue al ways to have him with as, hardy, prolific, bold, cunning, self-reliant and unwashed. The bulletin and it is stdly in accord with popular exper ience represents this active neigb bor of human kind as a dyed-ln-thr wool criminal among birds. He at tacks, it seems, almost every sort of vegetation useful for food," preys on his own kind by destroying their egs and driving them from gardens and parks and has no melodious pean to offer after bis victories. He should tie treated as vermin, and reduced In number, even if he cannot be exter minated. To be sure, -the bulletin does not offer one forlorn hope." Mr Dearborn of the biological survey says that he ought to be eaten. cf a child. Teachers have more ln-i Dau,e ""P wnnoui comers ana irans flaence on the mind of a child than Prte cilutely worthier. In any other Individual. To be a euc-icase or war we oouia not get our At WANTED! S1-ESMES to repiesent us In tbe sale of i.ur High Grade Goods Don't delay, apply at once. Btea'y employment ; libeial turns. Exper euoe not necessary. ALLEN NURSERY CO, KotUtbtcr, N. Y. ceasful teacher one must teach for the love of It instead of for the love of money." The afternoon session convened at 2 o'clock and was occupied with the following: Ddvotionat Exercises by Dr. Coxe. Address: Patience, Perseverance and Prudenoe by Dr. Coxe. Solo by Miss Mable Humbert. The Study of a child by Miss Zalinlecker. Solo by Miss Aiice SootL "Primary Reading" by Miss Cor- neiiason. "Primary History" by Miss Ro chette. "Simplified Spelling" by Mr. Wil drick. Chorus by the pupils of the Gram mar and High Schojls. "There are schools in Mecca, bat no educatiou. Tbe youth learn to : read the Koran without understand I ing Its meaning; and they learn a 1 little of Arabian history and many fanciful traditions. The boy gener- , ally has no books, and a favorite place for school is the court of the 11 10-1 1 ai with crowds of pilgrims go ing and coining to amuse the young scholars." Bratrice Keser recently spent a few days with relatives in Matamoras. Margaret Choi entertained Dum ber of her friends at her home on Broad St Saturday evening. We are glad to say that Percy My- lantlu fleet to San Francisco. No ves sel in the fleet can carry enough coal to take It there. We have no col liers, and could then hire none." Ex Secretary Shaw farther stated that if every powder mill in the United States was to make powder twenty four hours jer day for thirty days, the product wonld last oar present Navy only two hours, New Battleships fresiaent rati is advocating a naval program calling for the build ing of two immense battleships of he 25 thousand ton class each year until the Panama Canal shall be fin ished. This means tea battleships of the heaviest tonnage and 1 u is He desired to carry out the Roosevelt "Big Stick" policy under the impres sion that the best safeguard against war is to be fully armed for it. The Panama Canal, it is calculated will be completed in 1915. and it is urged that after ita completion the naval program oan be red iced, fur tl ei instead ol sending Beets around Cape Horn for the protection of our Pacific border, they can be sent through the Canal and coaled at several depots of our own en route. It is thought that Congress will make an appropriation for the two ships a year program. 0, You Rubbers! Robbers of all sizes tor the' largest man or smallest child. Lambertville Suag Pi oof and Goodyear Glove, the kinda that don't crack or break they stretch. Telephone or mail as your want. They will be delivered promptly by either stage. Your money back if yoa want it. - JOHNSON, Fitter of Feet, Port Jervia, N. Y. How Roosevelt Cut A Gordian Knot FOR RENT! ONE of the finest store rooms iu Milford. Corner Broad and Catharine Streets from April 1st. Also two I cottages ; one 6 rooms, water in both. L-...... t . M H ird,P.. A. D. BROWN, amount, condition or ' The Assessment Question Carbon county commissioners have instructed tbe various assessors to wipe out the existing iiif qualities n tbe assessment by returning all prop erty at Its full value. To show x isting conditions it is pointed out that In Mauch Chunk and other plaoes lots are assessed on a basis of $200 per foot and in Lansford whore property is conceded to be more valuable tbey are assessed at f5 per foot. The above emphasises what was said last week in the PkKsS, as to re garding each township iua county as a separate district without dirtot relation to the whole. The same rate of mills for county purposes ap plies, to all townships and v. by should not each be considered with respect to Us valuation in the same light. Two townships adjoin can any one say that a line dividing them bears any relation to tbe valua turns in each. If commissioners would once take a stand in this mat ter without reference to their politi cal future the inequalities in assess ments might be properly and equit ably adjusted. In tbe notices sent out by tbe board tbe words "as adjusted and equalized'' are used. Do tbe commissioners pretend that tbe word "equalized" means as de- Demand for Farm Labor The greatest problem the farmer of today has to meet Is the difficulty of obtaining and retaining in service farm laborers. The trolley lines and tne steam lines of the country bring the farm closer to the towns agd the cities, but they also bring tbe attrac tions of the eitiea and the hlgtur wages of Ihe city worktngmen closer to the farm .laborers, and in . the great majority of instances, finally de tach them from cultivation of tbe soil. "The call of the wild", is not answered by one tenth, of the nam. 1 ber of city residents which, the call of the city bring ks recruits from, the farms, and the result can be seen a'l over the world in the great inoreasc of nrnan population In the south the farmers have the advantage of s g tea ter supply of farm laborers than j those 1 f the north, but even their fl ld bands are becoming less numer ous thru their departure to tbe haunts of the elites la all sections of the union The advances that have al ready tnken place in Ihe wages of fat m laborers do cot stop this exo dus, and (here are today very few na tive white Americans who oan be proptriy classed as agricultural labor ers. In his now famous series, "Travel- with Taft," running through eaoh issue of H JMAN LIFE. Alfred Henry Lewis in tbe March number tells the following : A certain Scotch English nobleman, one Fraser, who bad commanded in the Boer. War, was with Mr. Roosevelt socially. Gen eral Crozier. of our owu army, came in per appointment. General Crozier in his kpare moments has invented a ' "rod" bayonet. Also be was urging its adoption by our army in lien of the sword bayonet. . Mr. Roosevelt had sent for Gener al Crozier. to come and defend the device. After, talking pro and con. Mr. Roosevelt said suddenly : 'Well, , there's nothing like a test.' Aside -from the work your bayonet does, Crozier, the troops ooaiplain that it's too weak.' Suppose we have a trial." Mr. Roosevelt sent for a conple of . Springflelds, one armed with a sword and the ether with a 'rod.' He gave General. Crozier the one adorned with bis own Invention, keeping the sword bayonet himself. ' Feet well spread, weapon in posi tion, Mr. Roosevelt gave the word. "On guard there, Crozier 1" The noble North Briton sat aghast. Sorely "(he bead of the greatest na-, 'ion on the map was not about to -renoe with real bayonets agalust an 'xperienoed soldier 1 ' With the best nd most skilful blay. with the most - ortteariiig caution, there was obl. .. iua peril in HI Either one or the -ther might get himself stack like a pig! The noble North Briton could not credit bis ears and eyes.' ' Yet there they were; the President and ' he General, fencing, thrusting, par y log like born foes, ' t ' - The play went on for fall two min ates. Then there was a rasping sound., a lock, a twt, and snap! rte Roosevelt sword bayonet bad broken the Qrpzier "rod" bayonet short off at the shank. The enthralled North Briton bear ed a deep breath and came out of but trance. He tells tbe tale In English, iriny oi roles, where it is greatly disbelieved. f qusl to another or tc 00- Mherssiu A Rare Musical Work Dr. E M. Westbrook of Ridge wood, N. J , who is well known here has'completed a very ambitions mus ical composition, a Concert Overture for two pianos, and four performers. He planned tbe work last summer at Nicheoronk Lake, aud since has de. voted much time to working oat the delicate touches to produce a fin. ished composition. There are sixty pages of music, thirty for each piano and fifteen for each performer. It opens with a thirty measure intro duction in ma jdstio chords, followed by a thirty two measure theme. with four variations after the style of Beethoven. Theu follow the in troductory interlude, merging Into the main body of the overture with three themes, developed in the Son ata form. Following is the coda and s on to the novel and brilliant olimax: . Dr. Westbrook is the author of several piano solos, duets, songs, carols and auto church music, aod a March arranged for the orchestra. He is a musical genius and his talent ia composition is not exceeded by bis skill as a performer on the piano. Ballinger and Pinchot Giffurd Pinchot testified this week before the investigating committee in the Ballinger matter. His state ment was a dear presentation of the case from bis standpoint and. If all the charges be made are sobstantial they will place the Interior Depart, ment In a very peculiar position with reference to tbe alleged fraudu lent oliima the Cunninghams were trying to have patented. Incident ally he charged that President Taft was deoeived by Ballinger and that a decision which the President re ferred to as having been made by the Comptroller in fact was never ren dered. The whole matter, has gone S3 far that a general suspicion at taobea to those who were aiding in tbe effort to defraud tbe nooule of I Wm. Yennie and wife - attended hundreds of millions of dollars worth jibe funeral of the former's sister. of coal lands in Alaska, 'Emma at Patexjoa N J. WedrjiaJay,
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